Last year, the State Department put Benghalem on a list of “specially designated global terrorists,” a kind of most-wanted sheet that raises a terrorist’s profile and allows to government to block any property or assets he might have in areas subject...

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In its very brief existence, and owing to a vast, sophisticated social media marketing apparatus, ISIS has succeeded in attracting fighters from far corners of the earth. There are at least 43,000 active pro-ISIS Twitter accounts operating today...

CEP Profiles Key ISIS Recruiters, Propagandists, and Inciters to Violence Operating on Twitter

CEP released profiles of 48 key ISIS recruiters, propagandists and inciters to violence on Twitter. “The hijacking and weaponization of social media platforms by extremist groups to radicalize, recruit, and plan violent attacks against innocent...

The CEO of a non-profit group whose mission is “to combat the growing threat from extremist ideology,” testified before a House committee last week that a “designated global terrorist” who is on the UN Security Council sanctions list used Twitter to...

The threat of extremism in the Middle East constantly evolves and adapts to prevailing conditions. In recent years, extremist groups such as ISIL have embraced social media platforms as a way to disseminate their propaganda and recruit new fighters...

After sending a letter to Toyota headquarters in March of this year, former Ambassador to the UN and current CEO of the Counter Extremism Project, Mark Wallace, received word from the automaker. According to its statement, “Toyota has a strict policy...

The Islamic State's ability to sustain itself through recruitment, propaganda and financing of its operations have bolstered its ability to survive as the U.S.-led military campaign against it has faltered. But U.S. officials are focusing on changing...

Although an independent Counter-Extremist Project has been running in the US for the past year, and a European counterpart, CEP Europe, was launched in Brussels on June 29, the only government to have grasped the nettle is the UK’s. Britain alone...

ICYMI: CEP CEO Mark Wallace Testifies Before U.S. Congress on Stopping Online Extremism

Details problem of weaponization of social media platforms at hearing (Washington, D.C.) – Counter Extremism Project CEO Mark D. Wallace called on Twitter and other social media companies to do more to combat online radicalization, recruitment, and...

Twitter has come under criticism from some analysts who say the social media company has failed to swiftly remove accounts that recruit potential terrorists and incite violence, raising concerns that the United States has not done enough to combat...